| Description | '... upon one Gordon before he was hanged together with Remarks and Experiments tending to shew, that a Turgescence of the blood Vessels in the Brain does not occasion an Apoplexy, when those Vessels are sound'
Observations of the Bronchotome operation carried out on a boy in St Andrews
Observations of operation carried out on Gordon, a noted highwayman, on 25 April 1733 before he went from Newgate to place of execution
Details of two experiments to determine whether the death of a person hanged is due to a defect of the air to the lungs or apoplexy from a stagnation of blood to the brain
Postscript to the second observation of arteriotomy
Read to the Royal Society on 7 and 21 June 1739 |